June 8 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone struck a train in Crimea, killing its assistant driver and injuring the driver, the peninsula’s Russian-installed governor Sergei Aksyonov said in a Telegram post early on Monday. Passengers on the train, commuting between Moscow and Simferopol, the main city of the Russia-annexed Black Sea Crimea peninsula, were not harmed, Aksyonov added. Russia seized and annexed Crimea in 2014 - long before its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine - after public protests in Kyiv prompted a Moscow-friendly president to flee Ukraine.
Crimea is a popular destination for Russian tourists. Drone raid sirens were sounded in the early hours of Monday in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a major export hub for oil and grains in Russia’s Krasnodar region about a two-hour drive from the bridge Moscow built to connect to Crimea, local authorities said on Telegram. The most recent Ukrainian drone strikes, attacking fuel infrastructure, have forced the Russian-controlled Crimea to tighten its rationing of fuel supplies.
Reuters could not independently verify all the reports.
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This is a stark reminder of the ongoing conflict and its impact. It's alarming to see civilian infrastructure being targeted like this, and lives lost as a result. With tensions still high, I wonder how this will affect the situation in Crimea and the broader region.